Search:
4 Items
Page: 1
To G. H. Darwin 18 [October 1877]
Summary
Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?
Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 18 [Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11008 |
To G. H. Darwin [after 28 October 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11216 |
From G. H. Darwin 23 October 1877
Summary
Loss of water from leaf surfaces; action of a still air layer.
Proposal for CD’s LL.D.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11200 |
From G. H. Darwin [28 October 1877]
Summary
Writes again about arrangements for the honorary degree ceremony.
Has been working on tides, which he is almost certain have altered the obliquity of the ecliptic.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11213 |
Document type
letter | (4) |
Addressee
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |